Cohousing Communities During COVID: Managing While Isolated, Yet Together
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
7:00-8:00 pm Central Daylight Time
Free, but registration is required by 6 pm on September 14 to receive your personal Zoom link
REGISTER HERE.
The next in our series bringing you quality national content plus a chance to mingle and discuss virtually with other local cohousing folks.
Learn how cohousing communities are being affected by COVID-19 and how they are responding to meet new social and financial challenges. Register for this special recorded presentation by Cohousing USA communications director Karen Gimnig and executive director Karin Hoskin. A discussion among registered Zoom participants will follow.
Register now (no later than Monday) to obtain your personal Zoom link.
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CEDAR COHOUSING
Walkability and Cohousing - Cedar Cohousing (formerly Bassett Creek) - upcoming Zoom event Sept. 19
Sat., Sept. 19, 2020 at 10:30 am.
Want to live more "green" in a cooperative community close to transit and other neighborhood amenities? Check out the progress being made on this Twin Cities cohousing initiative, Cedar Cohousing. Join them at this informational session to learn about the perks of "walkability" and how this works into their site selection process.
Register with them here.
Ian Thomas, one of their members is on staff with https://americawalks.org/ Ian will present on:
What is walkability, and what's so great about it? What does a walkable community look like?
Why do cohousing and walkability go hand-in-hand?
How is Cedar's site search process focusing on walkable areas of the Twin Cities?
In the media:
Get a peek at Monterey Cohousing in St Louis Park, and hear Becca Brackett talking about Cedar Cohousing (formerly Bassett Creek Cohousing) in this report that Channel 5 News did in summer 2019. View now.
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MONTEREY COHOUSING
Monterey Cohousing Community - expansion talks continue
Currently the only built cohousing community in the Twin Cities, Monterey Cohousing is responding to recent interest by more people to join their community by moving toward an expansion that will add a number of newly constructed housing units.
Members and prospective members are deeply involved in this process. There is room for another household or two, and now would be a great time to get involved so that your preferences are considered.
Located in St Louis Park, Monterey hosts occasional virtual & social-distanced information sessions. Reach them via the contact form on their website, Facebook, or call and talk to a real person at 952-479-0660.
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TCCN Board statement on confronting white supremacy
We, the board of Twin Cities Cohousing Network, have been meeting to talk about and process what the killing of George Floyd and the world-wide anger and opportunity for global change means to us and to Twin Cities Cohousing Network. We want to listen, respond, and be part of the solution.
The mission of TCCN is to conduct education, outreach and engagement with individuals, families and organizations in order to advance the development of high quality, sustainable cohousing communities in the Greater Twin Cities area.
We recognize that this mission has been primarily accessible to middle-class white people, and needs to be reconsidered and become accessible to all.
As a start, we--as individuals and as a board--are committed to educating ourselves about racism and white supremacy. Here are some resources that we have looked at lately.
With gratitude and hope,
Becca Brackett
Brian PaStarr
Brooke Dierkhising
Kathy Ahlers
Lynn Englund
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Deadline for next TCCN News--September 26
If you have an idea for TCCN News, or are interested in submitting an article for consideration, please contact us at twincities@cohousing.org. Deadline for the next issue is September 26. At this time, only editorial content is published. Ads are not accepted.
Items are selected according to Twin Cities Cohousing Network's mission and the communication circle's guidelines, and may be refused or edited. Ideally, an item would be 50-80 words in length, and include an image for which you have copyright ownership or written permission (license) to use.
Please include a contact name, email and/or phone number for us to reach you with questions, and also let us know if those or other contact means (e.g., Twitter handle) can be published with your piece in case a reader wishes to get more information.
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Core group contact page
Core groups have formed, and more are forming. See a list of core groups with contact information on our website, tccoho.org.
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Cohousing in the media
A hearty welcome to all of our recent subscribers. Here’s the link to an MPR News story about cohousing (4:32) from December 2019, in case you missed it.
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